NCR and
PayPal have struck a strategic
alliance aimed at enabling PayPal account holders to pay restaurant bills from
their mobile devices.

NCR Corp., which moved to Duluth, Ga., from Dayton in 2009, is integrating PayPal's
cloud-based digital wallet technology into its mobile payment technology. In addition
to ordering and paying for restaurant food, the combined technology would enable consumers
to pay for gas at the pump, or scan and pay for items while browsing in retail stores with
their mobile devices -- overcoming a major PayPal limitation.

“Combining NCR’s broad hospitality and retail footprint with PayPal’s global customer base
enables restaurants and retailers to redesign the consumer experience with mobile-enhanced shopping
and payments while materially improving business processes and creating seamless consumer
experiences across touch points, locations and channels," said John Bruno, chief technology officer
and executive vice president at NCR,
in a statement.

What makes this deal particularly important for PayPal is the broad scope of NCR's point-of-sale
(POS) footprint,
according to KioskMarketplace.com. NCR's customer base includes 38
percent of the top 100 U.S. restaurant chains and 50 percent of the major retail chains, as well as
eight of the 10 fastest-growing quick-service restaurants and fast casual restaurant
chains. More than 1.2 million retail POS systems and more than 100,000 self-checkout units
bear the NCR brand.

Meanwhile, PayPal has been pushing consumer deals to 117 million account holders
via its cloud-based digital wallet approach. PayPal wants users to have access to their
payment accounts, discounts and offers from any device or location, be it online or off, mobile or
stationary, KioskMarketplace.com said.

“Consumers and retailers want choice when it comes to purchasing and making payments as the
lines between shopping online and in-the-store are rapidly disappearing,” said Don Kingsborough,
PayPal’s vice president of Retail and Prepaid, in the statement. “We couldn’t be more excited about
working with NCR to combine their innovative software and hardware solutions with our
industry-leading digital payment technology.”

NCR's new mobile applications for restaurants and convenience stores will enable more
PayPal account holders to reach their digital wallets in the cloud.